Residents from any of the ETSU Family Medicine residency programs may spend one or
more months learning about rural practice with volunteer faculty in rural private
practice or community health centers. Practice sites in Southwest Virginia, Northeast
Tennessee, and Western North Carolina may be selected or emphasis on one or more of
the following: Obstetrics, geriatrics, pediatrics, office procedures, or community
oriented primary care. (Photo of Rural Programs Region).

Facilitating Practice Searches

Several recruitment activities are coordinated by the department (dinners, electives,
and a fair). A rural recruitment dinner for all ETSU residents is co-sponsored by
the Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia Primary Care Associations. The Tennessee Annual
Medical Recruitment Fair is sponsored by the state in Nashville. Residents and spouses
are invited to both events, where they meet with community representatives, physicians,
and Primary Care Association staff who are recruiting for a wide variety of community
health centers and practices that serve underserved communities.

Rural clinical experiences are available as elective rotations throughout our region.
These may be one month block rotations of longitudinal clinical experiences several
days of the month in the second and third years of residency. The Rural Partnership supports Tennessee's rural rotations. GMEC/AHGC supports rural rotations for Southwest Virginia.

Residents from any of the ETSU Family Medicine residency programs may spend one or
more months learning about rural practice with volunteer faculty in rural private
practice or community health centers. Practice sites in Southwest Virginia, Northeast
Tennessee, and Western North Carolina may be selected or emphasis on one or more of
the following: Obstetrics, geriatrics, pediatrics, office procedures, or community
oriented primary care. (Photo of Rural Programs Region).

The Rural Didactic Curriculum

Quarterly conferences are devoted to topics which are uniquely rural. Annually PGYII
residents take a road trip to rural clinical sites.